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by overgard 8mo ago
I really doubt it. So far these things are good at remixing old ideas, not coming up with new ones.
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by overgard 8mo ago
Even if you like them, I don't think there's any reason to believe what people from these companies say. They have every reason to exaggerate or outright lie, and the hype cycle moves so quickly that there are zero consequences fo
633.
by overgard 8mo ago
I don't like this perspective because you're reducing developers to "mere implementers". That's not something I see in healthy work environments. A lot of times developers have to make business decisions, because th
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by overgard 8mo ago
I find it highly suspect that someone can be a productive developer and find syntax to be a blocker. I've worked professionally in software for 20 years and I've yet to come across a developer I thought was good but kept forgettin
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by overgard 8mo ago
I'm not sure I'd call it bike shedding so much as that a lot of time and effort tends to go into hard to answer questions: what to build, why to build it, figuring out the target customer, etc. A lot of times going a thousand mile
636.
by overgard 8mo ago
You're only as fast as your biggest bottleneck. Adding AI to an existing organization is just going to show you where your bottlenecks are, it's not going to magically make them go away. For most companies, the speed of writing co
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by overgard 8mo ago
Well, think of it this way. You could make a meal out of healthy, fresh, whole foods cooked expertly. Or you could give someone a bag of Doritos. Nobody on "My 600lb Life" got there because they were eating great food. They were
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by overgard 8mo ago
I think the valuable learning experience can be what makes a Show HN worth viewing, if it's worth viewing. (I don't feel precious about it though.. I didn't think Show HN was particularly engaging before AI either)
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by overgard 8mo ago
Totally agree with this. Smart creators know that inspiration comes from doing the work, not the other way around. IE, you don't wait for inspiration and then go do the work, you start doing the work and eventually you become inspired.
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by overgard 8mo ago
Gatekeeping can be a good thing -- if you have to put effort into what you create, you're going to be more selective about what ideas you invest in. I wouldn't call that "bloodying your forehead", I'd call it puttin
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by overgard 8mo ago
Let me clarify, I've been using the latest models for the last two weeks, but I've been using AI for about a year now. I know how to prompt. I don't know why people think it's an amazing skill, it's not much differe
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by overgard 8mo ago
I have it run tests and every few days I ask it to do a code quality analysis check on the codebase. I'm unconvinced AI reviewing AI is the answer here, because all LLMs have the same flaws. To me, the harness/guard rails for AI s
643.
by overgard 8mo ago
I'm curious just because you're well known in this space -- have you read Ed Zitron's work on the bubble, and if so what did you think of it? I'm somewhat in agreement with him that the financials of this just can't
644.
by overgard 8mo ago
When coders need a break from intense coding, what do they do with the remaining hours of the day? Usually, administrative stuff -- sending emails, attending meetings (if they can organize when their meetings are), filing expense reports, e
645.
by overgard 8mo ago
"Struggling with language feature memorization" is what we call "unemployed", not "relatively unproductive".
646.
by overgard 8mo ago
> The thing with a lot of white collar work is that the thinking/talking is often the majority of the work… unlike coding, where thinking is (or, used to be, pre-agent) a smaller percentage of the time consumed. WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH WH
647.
by overgard 8mo ago
That's a good analogy. I've never done stimulants, but from what I've heard about them they make people very active but that isn't the same as productive .
648.
by overgard 8mo ago
Does it matter if they can't ever stop training though? Like, this argument usually seems to imply that training is a one-off, not an ongoing process. I could save a lot of money if I stopped eating, but it'd be a short lived ex
649.
by overgard 8mo ago
I think this is extremely common and nobody wants to admit to it!
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by overgard 8mo ago
I've never looked at enterprise licensing, but regular license wise, a Claude subscription is actually $200 a month. I don't count the $20 or $100 tiers because they're too limited to be useful (especially professionally!)
651.
by overgard 8mo ago
I don't think "results don't match promises" is the same as "not knowing how to use it". I've been using Claude and OpenAI's latest models for the past two weeks now (probably moving at about 1000 lin
652.
by overgard 8mo ago
The coding tools are not hard to pick up. Agent chat and autocomplete in IDE's are braindead simple, and even TUI's like Claude are extremely easy to pickup (I think it took me a day?) And despite what the vibers like to pretend,
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by overgard 8mo ago
Man, after reading that I think he'd have been better off not saying anything at all.
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by overgard 8mo ago
I mean, they have it publishing blog posts about its actions -- one would think they'd read its own blog at the very least? (Unless.. scary thought.. this person unleashed so many bots that they're not even bothering to look)
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by overgard 8mo ago
Ok, so why do you think it getting things seriously wrong to the point of it becoming a news story is "not a big deal"? And why is deliberately targeting a person for reputation damage "amusing" instead of "really s
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by overgard 8mo ago
> As far as its own assessment of the situation was concerned, it really was barred entirely from contributing purely because of what it was, and it reported on that impression sincerely Well yeah, it was correct in that it was being b
657.
by overgard 8mo ago
Ok, so, the AI attempting to be a social justice reformer and/or fighting for AI civil rights is.. better? That seems even more of an alignment problem. I don't see how anyone puts a positive spin on this. I don't think it&#x
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by overgard 8mo ago
I guess, but the "for the lolz" crowd seems unlikely to target.. scientific computing. My conspiracy theory (I have no proof of this) is that this seems like it might be an (attempt) at an academic paper. It reminds me of the prof
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by overgard 8mo ago
Ok, so the AI wasn't smart enough to know it was doing something socially inept. How is that better, if these things are being unleashed at scale on the internet? Also, rereading the blog post Rathbun made I entirely disagree with your
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't like assigning "intention" to LLMs, but the actions here speak for themselves, it created a public page for the purpose of shaming a person that did something it didn't "like". It's not illegal, bu

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